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Write on the Bases of Power.

  • UPSC 2022
  • 10 marks
  • Concept of Power, Hegemony, Ideology and Legitimacy

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To ask about the bases of power is to ask what an agent draws on to win compliance, which is a different question from what power is. The classic answer comes from the social psychologist John R. P. French, writing with Bertram H. Raven ("The Bases of Social Power", 1959). They treated influence as a…

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  • French and Raven: Five Bases, Then Six
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